It’s a reference to the long years of the anti-Semitic Inquisition, which spread to Portugal after its adoption as state policy by Spain in 1492, and to those countries’ colonies. Pernambuco for a ...

from the martial and political expulsion of Moors and Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 to the Spanish Inquisition. (formerly SOAN/HIST 0327) 3 hrs. lect./disc. As perhaps the most famous of all ...

On the eve of what historiography has termed the “Age of Discovery,” the Christian West held a geographical worldview that blended Greek, religious, and empirical influences, tinged with a sense of ...